Expériences du sacré et (dé)figurations du Christ. Artaud, Beckett, Pasolini

« Dieu est mort » proclame à l’envi le fou nietzschéen. C’est sous l’égide inquiète de cette assertion paroxystique, traduisant ce «malaise de la culture» qu’évoquait Freud, que la pensée, la littérature et l’art du XXe siècle européen évoluent. Cependant, le christianisme dont ce cri signe l’extrême décadence, n’est pas seul à imprégner les productions artistiques de ce siècle, même les plus prétendument athées, mais avant tout la figure du Christ - autour de laquelle sont structurés tant cette religion que son système de croyance – semble, littéralement et paradoxalement, infester l’imaginaire du XXe siècle, sous des formes plus ou moins fantasmatiques. Ce travail se propose ainsi précisément d’étudier, dans une optique interdisciplinaire entre littérature, art et cinéma, cette dynamique controversée, ses causes, les processus qui la sous-tendent ainsi que ses effets, à partir des œuvres de trois auteurs : Artaud, Beckett et Pasolini. L’objectif est de fournir une clé de lecture de cette problématique qui mette en exergue comment « la conversion de la croyance », comme la définit Deleuze, à laquelle ces auteurs participent, n’engendre pas un rejet purement profanatoire du christianisme mais, à l’inverse, la mise en œuvre d’un mouvement aussi violent que libératoire qualifié par Nancy de « déconstruction du christianisme ». Ce travail entend donc étudier tout d’abord à la lumière de l’expérience intérieure de Bataille, l’imaginaire christique qui sous-tend leurs productions ; puis, d’en analyser les mouvements et les effets en les questionnant sur la base de cette dynamique ambivalente que Grossman nomme la « défiguration de la forme christique ». Les excès délirants d’Artaud, l’ironie tranchante de Beckett et la passion ambiguë de Pasolini s’avèrent ainsi participer à un mouvement commun qui, oscillant entre reprise et rejet, débouche sur une attitude tout aussi destructive que revitalisante des fondements du christianisme.

Kirurgisen operaation teatteri : Teatterillinen kuva ja ihmismuodon esitettävyys avantgardistisen väkivallan näkökulmasta

Dissertation considers the birth of modernist and avant-gardist authorship as a reaction against mass society and massculture. Radical avant-gardism is studied as figurative violence done against the human form. The main argument claims avant-gardist authorship to be an act of masculine autogenesis. This act demands human form to be worked to an elementary state of disarticulateness, then to be reformed to the model of the artist's own psychophysical and idiosyncratic vision and experience. This work is connected to concrete mass, mass of pigment, charcoal, film, or flesh. This mass of the figure is worked to create a likeness in the nervous system of the spectator. The act of violence against the human figure is intended to shock the spectator. This shock is also a state of emotional and perceptional massification. I use theatrical image as heuristic tool and performance analysis, connecting figure and spectator into a larger image, which is constituted by relationships of mimesis, where figure presents the likeness of the spectator and spectator the likeness of the figure. Likeness is considered as both gestural - social mimetic - and sensuous - kinesthetically mimetic. Through this kind of construction one can describe and contextualize the process of violent autogenesis using particular images as case studies. Avant-gardist author is the author of theatrical image, not particular figure, and through act of massification the nervous system of the spectator is also part of this image. This is the most radical form and ideology of avant-gardist and modernist authorship or imagerial will to power. I construct a model of gestural-mimic performer to explicate the nature of violence done for human form in specific works, in Mann's novella Death in Venice, in Schiele's and Artaud's selfportaits, in Francis Bacon's paintings, in Beckett's shortplat NOT I, in Orlan's chirurgical performance Operation Omnipresense, in Cindy Sherman's Film/Stills, in Diamanda Galás's recording Vena Cava and in Hitchcock's Psycho. Masspsychology constructed a phobic picture of human form's plasticity and capability to be constituted by influencies coming both inside and outside - childhood, atavistic organic memories, urban field of nervous impulses, unconsciousness, capitalist (image)market and democratic masspolitics. Violence is then antimimetic and antitheatrical, a paradoxical situation, considering that massmedias and massaudiences created an enormous fascination about possibilities of theatrical and hypnotic influence in artistic elites. The problem was how to use theatrical image without coming as author under influence. In this work one possible answer is provided: by destructing the gestural-mimetic performer, by eliminating representations of mimic body techniques from the performer of human (a painted figure, a photographed figure, a filmed figure or an acted figure, audiovisual or vocal) figure. This work I call the chirurgical operation, which also indicates co-option with medical portraitures or medico-cultural diagnoses of human form. Destruction of the autonomy of the performer was a parallel process to constructing the new mass media audience as passive, plastic, feminine. The process created an image of a new kind of autotelic masculine author-hero, freed from human form in its bourgeois, aristocratic, classical and popular versions.

Só-mente

Dissertação de mest., Comunicação Cultura e Artes (Teatro e Intervenção Social e Cultural), Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Univ. do Algarve, 2011

Cet autre qui me regarde. Phénoménologie de la mémoire et temps eschatologique dans Le Premier Jardin et Oh les beaux jours

Alors que Les fous de Bassan s’attachait à mettre en scène une Amérique métonymique tournée vers sa fin, tout se passe comme si Le premier jardin visait pour sa part à lester cette Amérique incertaine et eschatologique par l’anamnèse de son commencement, qui, chez Anne Hébert, prend le plus souvent la forme d’un re-commencement. Il s’agira ici d’interroger le dispositif temporel mis en fiction dans le roman, notamment par l’entremise d’une lecture de la pièce Oh les beaux jours et de sa temporalité figée d’après-coup. À travers cette analyse de la temporalité, on voudra également mettre en relief l’instrumentalisation de l’histoire collective par le sujet, qui cherche ainsi à se prémunir de sa propre mémoire, constamment mise à distance au sein du roman.

Como é que eu vou descalçar esta bota? (sobre o espetáculo Gogo e Didi, cantata com prelúdio e fugas)

A participação no Mestrado em Comunicação, Cultura e Artes (Especialização em Teatro e Intervenção Social e Cultural) permitiu-me o contato com uma escola de Teatro, da qual a atriz Manuela de Freitas é a referência, escola esta que acredita (e defende) num conjunto de princípios originando uma Estética que é uma técnica e uma ética, e cuja conceção teatral se baseia nos legados deixados por Mestres de Teatro como Stanislavski, Grotowski, Artaud, Fernando Amado, Peter Brook, entre outros. Este meu encontro colocou em causa algumas das convicções (ou falta delas) que tinha acerca desta forma de arte. Após esta primeira experiência, e com a criação d' A Peste – Associação de Pesquisa Teatral, passei a desenvolver atividade artística regular, tentando aplicar e perceber alguns dos princípios referidos anteriormente, na qual se incluiu a criação do espetáculo Gogo e Didi, Cantata com prelúdio e fugas, baseado em excertos de peças de Samuel Beckett. Foi neste contexto que, ao longo de um ano e meio, desenvolvi atividade artística enquanto ator, refletindo sobre esta. Este trabalho inclui-se num de natureza superior, comum a diferentes investigadores na área das artes e comunicação, Teatro e Linhagem: um caso austríacoargentino- português, para o qual contribuí com o estudo e elaboração de verbetes sobre quatro conceitos-chave desta escola de Teatro: Convicção, Truques, Furo (na marmita), Rotina.

All that fall /Todos os que caem

Este artigo resulta de uma comunicação realizada no âmbito de um Colóquio sobre Samuel Beckett, organizado por Armando Nascimento Rosa, aquando do espectáculo homónimo da Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa, 2006.

Panos sem fundo (coordenadas para uma estética teatral deleuziana)

Dissertação de Mestrado em Filosofia Estética

Breaking Down and Breaking Out: Beckett’s ‘Absolute Liminality’ in the Third Age of Capitalist Traumas

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Fundação Millennium bcp